In Favor Of The Sensitive Man And Other Essays (Original Harvest Book; Hb333) - Plot & Excerpts
In this biography of a highly gifted but little known woman artist, Meryle Secrest combines lucid psychological insight with empathy in a deep exploration of character and relationships. She brings into vivid life a lost segment of art history. She has the skill and power to recreate history in shimmering colors. It is unusual when a study of character probes so deeply within a human being and still paints the atmosphere around it, the life style of the times. The book is fascinating for many reasons. American-born Romaine Goddard Brooks, who died in 1970 at the age of ninety-six, endured a nightmare childhood which would have stunted and distorted anyone else. The artist developed in spite of it. Even if, in her own words, this childhood stood “between me and life”—like an invisible fog, cooling the temperature of her loves or preventing the fullest expansion of her genius, even interfering with the life impulse—nevertheless, compared to the stunted lives of many modern artists today, she was involved in a rich, colorful pattern of friendships and loves with many remarkable figures of her time.
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